On 03/29/2010 01:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote:
On 3/29/10, rgheck<rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can
chew: jodconverter. From the description:
"JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, leverages OpenOffice.org to
provide import/export filters for various office formats including
OpenDocument and Microsoft Office.
This package provides a command-line frontend."
Would it make sense to provide menu entries in LyX for these two
converters? Liviu
I'd tend to answer "no". As years go by, tons of converters are going to come
and go. Tons of formats are going to come and go. If interfaces to all these
converters and formats are put in LyX, LyX will become big and bloated, and
that will give bugs more places to hide. My suggestion would be to put
converter interfaces in a separate executable that outputs either LyX or
LaTeX, and maybe have that callable from LyX.
There's actually not much cost with adding such interfaces, except that,
in 1.6.x, the Import and Export menu can become kind of crowded, as more
and more options become available. But making the options available
involve adds almost nothing to LyX, except the memory to store a few
strings.
rh
